Politics
- C. A. Smith (born 1895), British socialist and anti-communist activist
- Charles Abercrombie Smith, scientist, politician and civil servant of the Cape Colony
- Charles Aurelius Smith (1861–1916), former Governor of South Carolina
- Charles A. Smith (Canadian politician) (1845–?), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Charles Bennett Smith (1870–1939), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles Brooks Smith (1844–1899), U.S. Representative from West Virginia
- Charles C. Smith (Virginia politician), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, 1924–1926
- Charles C. Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1908–1970), Pennsylvania state representative
- Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), American journalist and politician
- Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), Georgia politician and writer under the nom de plume Bill Arp
- Charles K. Smith (1799–1866), American politician, lawyer, and first secretary of Minnesota Territory
- Charles L. Smith (1853–?), Canadian politician in New Brunswick
- Charles Lynwood Smith, Jr. (born 1943), U.S. federal judge
- Charles Manley Smith (1868–1937), governor of Vermont, 1935–37
- Charles P. Smith (born 1926), Wisconsin State Treasurer
- Charles Plympton Smith (born 1954), banker and former member of the Vermont House of Representatives
- Charles Rhodes Smith (1896–1993), Manitoba politician
- Charles Robert Smith (1887–1959) British colonial administrator and Governor of North Borneo
- Charlie Smith (Colorado), Chair of the College Republican National Committee
- Charles Smith (MP) (1756–1814), Member of Parliament for Saltash, 1796–1802
- Charles Harding Smith (1931–1997), loyalist leader in Northern Ireland
- Charles Napier Smith, politician in the Canadian province of Ontario
- Charles Culling Smith (1775–1853), British politician and courtier
Read more about this topic: Charles Smith
Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)